Gas prices on the rise again

Price up two cents from last week

With the rise in gas prices, it's not necessarily the areas with the highest prices that are hurt the most, but those where people drive the most. With the help of Chicago's Center For Neighborhood Technology, Forbes ranked the 10 metropolitan areas that are feeling the most pain at the pump and the 10 low-mileage cities that are hurt the least.

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With the rise in gas prices, it's not necessarily the areas with the highest prices that are hurt the most, but those where people drive the most. With the help of Chicago's Center For Neighborhood Technology, Forbes ranked the 10 metropolitan areas that are feeling the most pain at the pump and the 10 low-mileage cities that are hurt the least.

Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail price of a gallon of gas in Maine rose more than two cents in the past week to $3.54. The site surveys more than 1,200 Maine gas stations.

The price of gas in Maine remains 28 cents above the national average, which was unchanged in the past week.

Prices in Maine are now nine cents per gallon higher than the same day a year ago and less than a penny higher than a month ago.

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